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Friday, 15 April 2016

It is a true privilege to share several eTwinning projects in which one of our
seminar members, Amaya Alonso Cabria, has taken part and has achieved
high standards of performance as you will see when you look into the projects.

"Los
misterios del bosque" was chosen among the 12 best projects
in Europe and was awarded the European Quality
Label in 2015. The aim of the project is to let students know
about the legends of different places and countries by following the forests
paths. Really original, isn't it? It is indeed impressive when you see
that the teachers who take part in it are a Biology teacher from Barakaldo
(Amaya Alonso), a Spanish teacher form Ukraine ( Olena Baluba) and a Spanish
language and Literature teacher from Melilla ( José Antonio Sánchez)

Amaya is currently taking part in Science Timeline. This project
is for 16-17-year-old students and the countries that are taking part in it are
Italy and Spain (Basque Country, Antonio Trueba, Barakaldo). The aim of
this project is the study of the progress of Science in human History. Students
from different countries are working together in order to research
the scientific developments from the prehistoric times (discovery of fire,
stone axes, etc) to current progresses (new materials, smart cars, artificial
intelligence, etc). The pupils are going to create a timeline of Science in
different formats (Power point, calaméo, thinglink, etc) in mixed teamworks.
Then they are going to show their results in their own schools to spread the
project. Besides, they are going to take into account more intensively the
advances in Science made by different scientists or researchers from their
countries.

Go,
look in the mirror is another project developed by Amaya and another
colleague from her school, together with other members from
Ukraine, Melilla and Tunisia. The project is in English, Spanish and French.
It is aimed at 12-16-year-old students and they research about the
basic emotions (fear, sadness, hatred, astonishment, disgust,
anger) and the secondary ones (embarrassment, love, anxiety…), how they affect
teenagers and how they are reflected in our cultures
(traditions and different artistic expressions).

Amaya, our heartfelt congrats on having successfully
demonstrated that languages are a fantastic vehicle to develop projects
related to very diverse areas and cultures while developing students'
basic competences such as the interpersonal competence or the ICT
competence.

Tuesday, 5 April 2016

Today I would like to write
about an eTwinning project that has been awarded a "special category
prize": the best project in the area of teaching a curriculum subject through the medium of
English. This prize has been awarded to the project entitled " AIMS Alternatives for Innovative Math Study"

I have chosen to write about
this project because those of you who attend my CLIL seminar know I am a firm
believer in the theory of Multiple Intelligences and the participant
teachers in this project use the MI theory to discover and develop each student's
particular skills, needs and interests, differentiate and adapt the teaching
methods to them.

Besides, AIMS uses
cooperative learning methods, which is not so common in Maths classes,
fosters autonomous learning and promotes mutual respect, tolerance and
understanding for students with different abilities.

Last but not least,
students who have taken part in this project create their own
learning materials for each type of MI by using motivating ICT
tools or modelling real-life situations so that mathematical contents
become relevant for them.

Below you can find an example of the use of mind
maps, developed by the Greek team:

It is, indeed, an ideal project for our CLIL classes. It focuses on Maths
and it aims mainly at making 11-16-year-old students see the connection between Maths
and real life but it covers many other subjects: Design and
Technology, European Studies, Foreign Languages, History, / ICT, Mathematics /
Geometry, Natural Sciences, Physics.